06 January 2003
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Cover story
Can God stop the war?
The churches, with Canterbury to the fore, are becoming the main opposition to invading Iraq. This, argues Bryan Appleyard, is a momentous rethinking of an ancient deal
Features
It's all a lot of hot air
Resist double glazing salesmen, advises Jeff Howell. They can't save us from global warming
Lula, a people's last hope
Brazil's president says he'll attempt the impossible in this, one of the world's most unequal societies. Will he face the same troubles as Venezuela's Chavez?
Is the Daily Mail right about immigrants?
Unskilled migrants depress the wages of unskilled natives. But if we allow entry only to the highly educated, the results for poor nations are dire. John Lloyd on a liberal dilemma
The half-blind tourist
Horatio Clare tries being an Adventurous Traveller in famine-stricken Ethiopia, but decides that he will not be showing the photographs to his friends
Regulars
The Politics Column
Politics - John Kampfner wants more gravitas from Kennedy
If the Lib Dems are to oust the Tories as the main opposition party, somebody has to find a way of injecting a little gravitas into Chat Show Charlie
Cristina Odone ponders the ethics of cloning
Scientists as well as cult leaders ignore the moral questions behind cloning
Darcus Howe finds violence in Tobago
In Scarborough, the capital of Tobago, I attend a sad ritual some 400 years old
Competition
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Culture
Cartoon wars
By dramatising events in comic-book form, Joe Sacco's Palestine exposes the fantasy of the Israeli occupation
Divine beasts
Art - Ned Denny on how Albrecht Durer's prints turned even the rhino into a thing of beauty
Knickerbocker glory
Dance - Peter Conrad relishes Matthew Bourne's campily confected extravaganza
Film
Curse of the ageing little schnook
Film - Philip Kerr on yet another improbable romance from Woody Allen and his ego
Theatre
High society and slumming it
Theatre - Sheridan Morley on conflicts of colour in Noel Coward and August Wilson
Television
A certain urge to shock
Television - Andrew Billen on why the genius of Peter Cook should be viewed in context
Books
How poetry became just an appendix. When do you hear anybody quote a line from a contemporary poet? Yet you hear Bob Dylan, and other songwriters, quoted all the time. By Will Self
Do You, Mr Jones?: Bob Dylan with the poets and professors Edited by Neil Corcoran Chatto & Windus, 378pp, £17.99 ISBN 0701172800
An oak planted in a flowerpot. Raymond Carr on the serendipitous rise of the Spanish empire
Spain's Road to Empire: the making of a world power (1492-1763) Henry Kamen Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 609pp, £25 ISBN 0713993650
No Flemish, no rights
Preachers of Hate: the rise of the far right Angus Roxburgh Gibson Square Books, 320pp, £18.99 ISBN 1903933218
Boy talk
My life and travels: an anthology Wilfred Thesiger; edited by Alexander Maitland HarperCollins, 302pp, £20 ISBN 000257151X
The O-zone
Inside Out: a memoir of entering and breaking out of a Minneapolis political cult Alexandra Stein North Star Press, 368pp, £12.99 (from Central Books, 99 Wallis Road, London E9 5LN; orders@centralbooks.com)
